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What does Koenig conclude after testing the prosecution’s timeline in Episode 5?

How does Episode 10’s exploration of anti-Muslim bias function rhetorically within the series’ broader PURPOSE?

“Hae has got a crush on Don….Don has blue eyes and blonde hair and a Camero and she really, really likes him….At one point, she writes Adnan’s name in giant block letters made out of tiny little Adnans and underneath that does the same thing with Don. Giant letters made up of Dons. On another page, she writes Don’s name 127 times. 127 Dons.” What literary device does Sarah Koenig employ here?

The claim is that Adnan is guilty because his prints are on the map in Hae’s car. What is the most effective counterclaim?

The genre of Serial can best be described as…

What unresolved discrepancy does Episode 12 highlight involving Jay and Jenn?

I read a few newspaper clips about the case, looked up a few trial records. And on paper, the case was like a Shakespearean mashup– young lovers from different worlds thwarting their families, secret assignations, jealousy, suspicion, and honor besmirched, the villain not a Moor exactly, but a Muslim all the same, and a final act of murderous revenge. And the main stage? A regular old high school across the street from a 7-Eleven. From the passage above, what literary device as a part of author’s craft does Sarah Koenig use?

At trial, Adnan’s lawyer brings up this phone booth when she’s trying to attack Jay’s credibility. She says to the judge, “we believe that the physical description of the actuality of Best Buy, including the location of the phone booth at Best Buy, the entrance, the existence or non-existence of security cameras,” etc., she goes on. A better way to “attack Jay’s credibility” would have been to…

If you wanted to prove that Adnan was unhealthily obsessed over Hae, which testimony would be the strongest evidence to use in your case?

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